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Show FULL -- PRESS ASSOCIATED DISPATCHES THE "SSS UTAH WEATHER FORECAST IT 18 IT CHAROEIi ui mmct ERTI8ING MEDIUM THE INDICATIONS ARE THAT THERE WILL BE SCATTER- rHlSS citv" THE EXAMINER THE COUNTY AS WELL USSCRI A- AD. 0 Twin ' ING IV OGDEN NO- - Q2 CITY, JUE RUEF WANTS i TO TREE HIM EVE OF 'Friscos Boss Grafter Files Another Application for Writ T of Habeas That His Detention By Elisor Biggy is Illegal Corpus He Says And fhat He is Being Cruelly and Unusually Punished. lh 1. Ob ftai Fmnrisro, April exgf hi trial on the charge restau-M- t French from torting to of thU city, which before be begun tomorrow morning Joi'ce Dunne In the nuperior oourt, Mnham Rwrf today asked the ta'.in oourt of California to free Lin the cnetody of Elinor Blggy and slier-I-f order him Into the charge of the whom Judge Dunne disqualified on tbe ground of pereonal iniereat. Ruef by hie attomeyn, Meaare. Ach. Falrall and Murphy, Short tied ta the higher court an application for a wilt of habeaa corpun ro argument extensive in allegatlonn, end citation of nathoritien that It Adan-b-Fhllllp- ei rlil. osrupled twenty-on- typewrlften e embrace lty-tw- o pag1- -' a. Huef set up that hi Impriionment, detention and courtailment of liberty Biggy In the houe. No. fcy Elinor !M( Fillmore treet, are Illegal; that hit cue in court for four months prhw to March 4, and that on that being Indisposed, he coneuldel to Ttidt the Trocadero, a auburban bellav-In- f rraort, and there recuperate, on the advice of hla counsel that reMs presence in court wjs not plied owing to an appeal taken by Urn to tbe supreme court of the Unit-t- j States, by means of a writ of error granted by Superior Judge Hob-birthat he wu there arrested withdale, d; Teio-piion- out legal right; that he has app'.U-- d to Judge Dunne for admittance to bull ud been refused; that he la 42 year tie, ha lived in Ban Francisco in hla life, has been engaged In the practice of law for twenty year, snl kai large busineaa interest at stake; of that he I constantly and minutely niched by eight private guards the cant elisor, sll of them bearing braarms, Ml of them employed by Rudolph Sprockets, Frauds J. Hene.c of .ha .. Win. ud Bums, and all paid eat of a private fund of t00,-F- act raised and guaranteed by Sprocket; that his Indictment by the grand and caused by fmy vm instigated Rpieckels, Heney and Burns: that Heney and Jndge Dunne in his political enemies; that so Hi let Is the mslntsl-ieespionage over him by bis guards ithat It Is for him to have privacy even is conversation with hla attorneys ex Kpt by whispering softly; that he has complained to Judge Dunne, through hU counsel, and been refused mere liberty; that persons who 'are to be witnesses In bln defensq are not permitted to visit and converse wl,h him In the preparation of his defense; that he Is compelled to Bleep In a bedchamber occupied by guards and therein lights are kept burning all eight; that he Is practically in a gtue of solitary confliu-mennot even his attorneys being allowed to visit him jd the discretion of the elisor; that Is being punished, Imprisoned and uumlllntej before trial, and that he cannot properly prepare his defense under existing conditions of confinement; that all thin Is being done for express purpose of hindering and hampering himself and hts counsel in lb, preparation of his defense; thst m Is not held by lawful authority; H'Sl he Is bold without ball on the ground thst his trial has begun, under tcetlon 112b of the code which u unconstitutional penal and violative si he fifth and eighth amendments to ' constitution of the United 8 tat d of section six of article one of the constitution of California referring to bail and to cruel and unusual punishment ; that he Is being cruelly and unusually punished. He asks to discharged from the custody of elisor on reasonable ball, and w then ordered into the custody of and that pending the hear- je sheriff, this petition an order of tha t, ! m,de directing the elisor to "1.1. l!'1' iBy one person at a time to I tu'h to him within ,n'1 10 Perm,t person tr vi.'17,,pon written order of his an1 10 him to and openly with his atcor-nrnutsidp of the bearing of HHU.c Fy and his guards. ,.Rupr'me court took no action J - Pelt a PP'ictilon today, not even luu wriL pill " "Mtematlv, E,rl- wner of the Los Express, and Dr. J. R ui' ." E"in pPesl(,Pnt of the civil ser-ks Angeles andof Caiifortiur,'M League m it re amon fhose who eJ1 - 1 Z o-- tor lntP" k"d Jury. Both had i pra!nd without the knout Attorney ilrrev'Jll,'nt toDlstrici a statement ,hp -- ,an'1 Dr- - connection with either tbs Western Trust company or the Home Tlephoue He answered readily the company. questions put to him In the Jury room, but he could add nothing to the investigation because he knew nothing. The glat of Mr. Earl's teatlniuuy before the Inquisitorial body was that be had been advised by the company of Los Angeles to subscribe, as a first das Investment, to the 11.000.000 of San Francisco Home Telephone company bonds uu-dwritten by the Western Trust company ; that he did so. and was elected a director of the latter corporation; tnat he, together with Dr. Hay urn ud forty-on- e other stockholder has thus far paid on demand thirty per cent of hla subscriptions In two installments of 15 per cent each, one in April and the other In December, lbut, the total thirty per cent payment of stockholders being ail the forty-thre- e f 300,000; that he attended only one directors meeting, which was held iu Mgy of lOOtT, and that he is wholly ignorant of the wrongful use of funds In any of the matter under investigation or to be investigated. Before Mr. Earl left the witness stand this unusual dialogue happmeJ between Earl and Heney: Mr. Heney, la It not a Mr. Earl: fact that you have told me more e about this affair of the Home company than I knew before I came Into this room? That Is correct. Mr. Heney: Are you satisfied tha. Hr. Earl: I know nothing of the affairs you havs questioned me shout? Mr. Heney: Entirely." - Mr. Will you so state to Earl: the press?" I will, sir, with Mr. Heney: pleasure." Other witnesses examined by the Crand Jury today were Hartley Pearl, aw attorney as sorts tad with XJoorgs Hstton, general counsel for the Hnms Telephone company of Oakland; Miss Lkcille Cochran, stenographer to Geo Hatton; Stuart Gaynesa. a local and Mr. Sties, assistant general manager of the Pacific States Telephone company. The trial of Ruef on the extortion chsrgea is, unless the program be abruptly changed at the last moment, to begin In Judge Dunne's department of the superior oourt at 10 o'clock row morning. It la estimated oy counsel that ten days or even tw-weeks will be taken up in getting a Jury. Shortrldge, Ach. Attorneys Falrall and Murphy will appear for Rust, Ach being authority for the statement, made tonight, that no additional counsel will bo engaged. Tha tries men will be exaimned by Aeh. Of these there are nineteen fram She J50 drawn by Judge Dunne'e order, the other 1S1 having been disqualified or excused. Judge Dunns can either draw additional panels from iho hundreds of uncalled names on tha register Jury list, or ho can order the elisor to bring in a special venire from the county at large. District Attorney Langdon and Special Prosecutor Hiram L. Johnson, it Is under-Itc-owill appear for the people, District Attorney Heney remaining with the grand Jury, whose sessions are not to be suspended during tbe progress of trials resulting The returned. from indictments uetanse Is entitled to ten peremptory challenges, the prosecution to five. Either side can challenge talesmen tor cause without limitation, the allow--, a nee or denial of the challenge rest- mg with the court Special Agent Burns for the prove-- 1 culion announced today the recsipt of a cablegram stating that Theodore V. Halsey, indicted on ten counts of bribing supervisors In behalf of the Pacific States Telephone company, wl.l start for Ban Francisco from Manila April 9 on the steamship China, in charge of Captain Trowbridge, chief of the secret service fur the Philippines. He is due to arrive here early in May. The trials of Supervisor Nichole.?, Janitor Duffy and Nathan Adler, 'ho latier the proprietor of a French restaurant, charged with conspiracy an.l petty extortion, have been contln-i'by Judge Dunne for two weeks. The will .follow tbe Ruef and Schmits cases on the calendar. Mr. Heney started a sensation among the newspaper men Immediately after today's grand Jury sessl-iby remarking that he had In his possession one of the notebooks of Halsey's former stenographer and a typewritten transcript of its content." He would not discuss the matters contained or give any Information a to their Importance to the by newa-parerma- to-u- m 1 I11' ex-J.i- '-" g::-r- - APRIL MORNING, WOMAN FOUND MURDERED. Crime Supposed t Have Been mitted by Her Father. 1907 PRICE FIVE CENTS ENDS WITH THE Com- New York, April 1. The llfelesa body of Mrs. Marie Techt. au Italian, waa found today lying iu ike hail way outside of her apartment in Brooklyn. Her throat was out and a iilotidy carving knife, with which the murder was F-di.r : i TRAINMEN REDUCED Campaign Has Been One of the Most Spirited Political Contests That has Ever Taken Place in the Windy City Personal Abuse of Candidates Has Been One of the Campaigns Features. Chicago. April 1. Chicago's street car tiurbiluu. which ha the public for the past ten Will le settled at the (tolls tomorrow at the lit) orally election. If the voi-adopt by referendum vote the ordl n..nct-recently passed by the rli council over Mayor Dunne's veto, granting twenty year franchises lo the two street car companies. It these ordinances fall of public a J option and Mayor Dunne, tne Deni ovratic candidate, 1 effoits will be made at once, according to Mayor Dunne, in procure iniiucJt-itmunicipal ownership of tbe si re, t railways. The ordinance before the people provide that the city on stx muniV t.i.tlce may acquire the street railway system for 5jO,(hiu,oik. plus the cast of rehabilitation, which is to be Immediately undi-- the s vision of the city' engineer. The oidinances also provide for through routes, universal transfer five cent fares and the payment to the city nf Zi per cent of the m-- i income. Several organization? hut a worked with the Republican, who are supporting Postmaster FreJ A. Busse for mayor, to procure tl.e uoptlon of the ordinances, and tha prediction was made tonight by the lit ads of those bodies thst the ordinances will be silo pled tomorrow. Mayor Dunne believes the peop e want immediate municipal ownership him and and thst they will iw.'oct the ordinances. Tbs campaign has been the most fi tilled fight for mayor that has ever taken place in this city. The feeling lie tween the candidate and tbetr lieutenants became so hitter during thu campaign that personal abuse has been the issue fur over two weeks. Tbe weather indlrattoos for touiitr-ruare clear and warm, and as heavy a ballot as an April slectlun would bring out, la looked for. tu-i- n a - r n NEWHOIISE out OF RACE PROBLEM Two Great Movements Have Been Launched In Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., April 1. Two great movements looking toward the solution of the race problem In the south, especially in Georgia, have! been launched and have gained the support of some of the most prominent men to the country, according to a statement made by a conference of Atlanta Evangelical minister association today. One movement Is being urged by Dr. John EL White, pastor of the Frist Baptist church, who reported to the conference that It is gaining great headway. Five of the wealthiest men to the south," Dr. White stated, have put all they have back of this movement. We contemplate the organisation of all the moral forces of tbe south to one great body and the appointment of a commission, composed of the best and most learned men of the south to handle the question and deal with the situation .respecting the different races." The other movement Is being fostered by former Gov. W. J. Northern of Georgia, who has been urging In speeches all over the state the establishment of a slate commission com- - "" f "A Marriage of Reason" Presented at Wallacks Theater. r which tbe individual cKIsen ef thn United Slates now enjoyn, the exception being that puhliaher of the United States have an additional prtvlleoge uf mailing In bulk packages at the rate named, separately add named newspapers and periodicals Intended for delivery to subscribers at one poklnffice and the coat of the publishers of the fulled States will be at leeit 50 per emit less than If tbe postal union rate should be applied. for their indictment fur en-iw- i lenient, H was claimed that Lie proof in the Savannah court showed FOLLOWING that the alleged payment of motiay for their use had town made iu New ' As The argument for the defense luti nut concluded when court adjourned for the day. Girt Whe Matrlsd a Chinamen, Going to China With Her Departed Husband. CAPTURE OF HONDURAN POST, of New Orleans, April 1. Tbe capture Iort IJvIngatune, Honduras, by Nic- lata Angeles. April 1. Emms Culver of Duarte, a young , California g'.rl who a month ago married Yee a Chinaman, atarted with the latter wheu, with thirty aevea otheia of hla race, he ws Inadad on bonrj n Southern Pacific train bound for fight. The capture waa made March SS, San Francisco en route to Hong Kong; and on the following day Hunduraua ou an order of deportation from thin with about luo reinforcements made country. Mias Culver la the niece ef an unsuccessful attempt to recapture a mlaalonary worker. She met the the port. young Chinaman In Monrovia, several month ago and finally they were mat-tie- araguans was reimrted by passengers uf ihe steamer Harry T. Inge, a bleb arrived today from ('antral American porta. Four Honduran aoldlera were reported to havs been killed in the d. Ye Lung waa arretted later and after a trial In the federal court ws ordered deported. Hts young wile stayed by Ms aids constantly and whra tbs order of deportation was made agalmtt her husband, sb thst ah would go with him to China. Today she boarded tbe train with him. The party la to charge ot Deputy . United States Marshal J. 8. Dnrhta tad six assistants.' ' They will be put on board the steamrr Coptic at Baa Fraartsco 'tomorrow and shipped to Hoog Kong. GRANITE alt Laker Is Chosen on Board of the Niptasing Mines Company ef Mains. Augusta, Maine, April 1. The first annual meeting of the stockholders of the Niplsstng Mines company was held here today. The chief business transnf tbe old acted was the board of director and the enlargement of the directorate from nine to eleven member. The new members of the board of directors are Samuel Nswhouss of Salt lake and Lyman B. Kendall of New York. The stockholders attending rep 837,239 shares, controlled by Charles H. Boynton and W. C. Orr, both of New York, supported by proposition to Increase the number of directors.- Charles Hope Caldwell of New York, representing C. F. Jonaa-soof New York, who controls 83,000 shares, said to represent the holdings of about 1,000 persons, made an unsuccessful attempt to get several votes Jonasion and George put through. F. Morton of Toronto conducted a rampalgn previous today's meeflng to secure proxies to be used In voting for certain reforms whlrh they declared were needed to the management of the company. They claimed that See rut ary W. T. Greene of New York refused to allow them to see the minute of the meetings of the board of directors and of the executive committee. Mr. Caldwell asked that the stockholders present vote to give him permission to see these minutes. He said the small stockholder ought to know bow the business bad been conducted. The motion was defeated. were amended so as to The provide for not lea than three nor more than fifteen directors," and it was voted that for the ensuring year the number be fixed at eleven. Pre vlous to tbis vote a motion thst the number for the coming year be fixed at 15 was lost. The meeting then adjourned until April 22, when the stockholders will votp on the proposition to retire fG.0i),U0n nf rapltal stock, which has never been Issued. d n i sc-tF- 1 tie-Hi- e, i l HER CHINK HUSBAND lotk! CLASH New York. April 1. A Marriage a nrw four-se- t not! era psy, written by J. Hartley Manners an founded on the English novel, "he B pcond Ijidy Delcomtw, by Mrs. Kennard, wan given Its first New York production tonight at Wal GREEKE-GAYNOR lack's theater. Tbe story deals with EIGHT YEAR OF tbe possibility of happiness to the LEGAL FIGHT r.'a riagn of convenience. Kyrle Bellew impersonated Lint Eelcombe. a peer by birth but almost a pauper thruttah ciicumstances ail Arguments in the Famous Case Being lis own early extravagance. He Mads in the U. 8-- Court of tiieets and becomes interested In Rita Appeals. Forrest, a very attractive woman Irom Sligo, played by Fannie Ward. A unique proposal follow and he . 1. Filtering New Orleans, April no entlmentality on There of legal battle, the Its eldtth year cither side and front first to last it ' rare or Benjamin D. Greene nn John to be a marriage nf reason. F. Gaynor, ronricted of defrauding the government of over half a milliim "The Ambitious Mrs. Olcott. to Savannah harbor Improvements, was called for argument, today New York. April 1. "The ambiin the United States circuit court of tions Mrs. Olcott. a play by Leo and Perclval Pollard, sat 2iaU upon a writ of error from the given at tbe Aslor theater tonight. federal court at Savannah. Indictment A demurrer to the first The play concerns Itself with the life of Washington and 1 a study for conspiracy was aryur-- l by the It was pointed oat that when t the love and Jealousy and amnl-Gen- s Judge of cnltered people. The com- this Indictment came up before he condcmnn-pany carried the t'.tv through a very Drown of New York ten counts hut successful first night Included Dw , the first eight out f tndlctnn-ninter, when the same thy D. Orr, Ruth Chester, Wm. Haw-toycane up before Judge Speer of Charles Chert")' and Leo the latter condemned the two of Reason, d for. WAS by-la- TWO NEW PLAYS. counts whlrh Judge Brown had suswhich Judge taining the eight counts Lf'wn had condemut-d-. It was argued that Greene and Guvnor were extridlted from Canada tor particlpatiou In fraud by an agent or iruatee. At Savannah, however, lie attorney K aald they were tried up n '.he charge of couaplracy, and this i'liu. tinted to trying ihem fur a feri-n- t offense than they weie extrt-uitc- MADE DIRECTOR Are Satisfied With the Nine Hour Work Day. SOLUTION 2. poaed of lawyers, whose dry it sha'i he to have the laws of t!., slate so the jue-en- t revised as to do awt wi objections to tM Vui uji.uit of trying and punishing of the K.u r and members of mobs. done, lay beside her. A nuns hat. said to belong to her father. Antonio Lancia, who occupied room in the same building, was fouud near by. Lancia could not be to.ind. His son Arthur said that Lancia and his daughter quarreled today over money. On follow-lug Associated Proas to make the learning uf his slaters death, the boy : statement took a big knife and sinned iu search Dispatches heretofore sent out of his father. from Omaha Indicating that S. R. Rush, the special attorney for the United States residing at that place, CAPTAIN 1ACKLIN ON Is to have, in connection with me, ttie planning and management of the work BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR of the department of Justice Id Colowest generalrado, Wyoming and the Such misleading. ly, are entirely After Ha Tells Feraker'a Committee work belongs to the department of What He Knows Then He Is to justice at Washington. Mr. Kush has I Be Court Martlaled. no more to do with matters in the ter rltorv mentioned than any other atior-- 1 ney of the special attorneys. Washington. April 1. The testiNaturally P. A. Maynard at Salt. A. Mackllu of Lake. Mr. Ernest K Babel at Denver mony of Captain and Mr. Ruth In Nebraska will have company C. Twenty-fifttufaniry. was most to do in their respective states, taken by the comtritiee ou military where they are located, and each and affairs today in the liroownsrllle lu- everyone of them will be as likely to vestifcatlon. It prevnd Interesting parhave as much to do in Wyoming. Mon- ticularly for the ret sou that Mackllu tana and New Mexico or other terri- is to bis tried by court martial after tory where we have no special attor- his return to Texas, and for the further reason that he was shot by an neys, as the other. Mr. Rush represents the government unidentified negro a. Fort Reno after before the grand Jury at Cheyenne on- the negro soldiers were taken away :' ly because he can be spared at this from Fort Brows. Mar kiln dues nol time and the other attorneys named believe the negroes were guilty of have engagements in the courts of shooting up Brocvrsvllle, according to his story told an "he stand today. Utah and Colorado, respectively." At the afternoon session Captain Mr. Burch himself claims no superiority In respect to this western busi- Mackllu waa croMritx smined, principalness and says he is In supervisory ly as to his wherealouts when shootcharge merely because he is connect- ing occurred and ft evidence given ed with the department at by former negroes ildlers that they had been unable to f nd the captain In hla quarters when Major Pennwe sent them to arouse htnr, Captain Mark-- ; Hn said that he dit, not believe the soldiers had come fr his quarters. The shells which Captain Macklln picked up outside the garrison wall were put in his desk he said, and was forgotten until after the battalion toft Fort Brown. Seans for them later had been unavailing Chairman Warrwi questioned Cap-tla- n Macklln concerning the attack upon him at Fort Reno after the Brownsville affray, when the captain was shot through the head, the witness said he was in doubt as to who did the sthtotlng. Officers of my regiment tried to make me believe that the shooting was for the purpose of robbery, ho said, but It is my theory that it was not," he said the shooting had been done by a masked man, bnt that he knew nothing more concerning it. Corporal Knowles of company A, Twenty-fifth infantry, is under arrant charged with having commhteed the assault, but Captain Macklln said thst the evidence against Knowles Is circumstantial. Chicago, April 1a The railway em- purely ployes in the train service of the western railroads have reduced their de- JEROME GOING mands to a nine-hou- r workday and the AFTER POOLROOMS government officials who came to Chicago hat week to bring about a peaceable adjustment of the threatened ' New York District Attorney Going strike are working hard to overcome After Psopl Who Rises obstacle. that Commissioners Beta, Knapp and Neill held an almost continuous session today with tbe general managers and the representatives of New Turk, April L Assistant Disthe trainmen and conductors. The Van Dlvsr nald today trainmen today signified their willing- trict Attorney e subpoena had been Isness to accept the wage Increase of- that sixty-fivfered by the railroads If the managers sued for patrons who hav placed Iwts would grant the demand for the nine with an alleged poolroom syndicate, hours workday. The labor delegates tbs threw offices of which were raided declared that the wage Increase asked by a fores from the district attorney's for was a mlgor consideration, but office last week. Mr. Van Diver later had a conferthat they could pot face their constit- ence with several officials of different uents without securing improvements banks and said that as a result he had in the working conditions. into possession of a number of It waa learned tonight that the nine-hou- r come demand of the firemen waa what checks made out by men who had lost has prevented a settlement of that end bets and who sent cheeks to cover of the labor difficulties the western their Josses. One check was for 925,-00' roads are experiencing. While actDan O'Reilly, said to t counsel for j ing separately entirely from the conductors and trainmen, the firemen are some of tbe persons summoned, said questions would be answered until standing out for the same demands, no and. It Is said. In the event of a strike his clients go before the grand Jury, would talk freely. being ordered they, too, would walk when clients a Haynes bad excused by wire, '"d not reach him. V in ibe SLv fh' HaynM can ea,1y of Mr. Heney Jhe " aiia ha,.: Interview with him. RUSH IS ONLY A V ti, r':i-Pr' Havnpa was the ffrnnl SPECIAL ATTORNEY aMia i!,ance'on Eeui ws requested 1 nj,"1 inasmuch as he a nf !hp "etcrn Trust 'upativ Judge Burch 8ays That He la Only .ih i,hi.UF,AnKplp corporation One of the Bunch of Government r?v for, thr P"rD0P Attorneys. lhp of tin Ti-- . "e company of 8an ?!' Ep'" ' va'l: Denver. April 1. Judge M. C. Burch, r!J .y' Havne hecau-- e 1 special assistant United States attor' fr of nthln What- - ney general. In cupervisory charge of ,v 1,1 Primer investlRs- - coal, timber and other land frauds and 1 I C1!p I ;oEar, 1 apppar Pc offenses, left hero tonight for Boise, o.'?11! h n ?n. be able twhere It is understood he will consu't with the district attorney fur Idaho "phone pobimL 0,1 wrta,n Hn there lu regard to the prosecution of timber and land frauds to thst state. all of wrong doing iu Judge Burch today authorised the TUESDAY UTAH, 1 .... TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. kethess. VOL SHOWERS Mob Armed to Avenge Death of Victim. Colored CUTTERS STRIKE. ; Dallas, Texas, April 1. Graait cutters In nil tbo larga rttlss of Texas struck today. They demand a Increase of from 33 to 15 cents par day. Tbe master stone masons. It 1? bolieveJ, will attempt to have epea shops. TEXAS LEGISLATURE Fort Worth, Texas, April 9. At 1 o rlock tbls morning s telephone nu sage received here from Durant, T, says that an appeal bad reached there fur all the deputy mantbals t that point to go at ones to Gale sta Don, five miles sway on the Missouri, K&usas and Texas railroad, to aid the white people who were threatened with attack by a band of proes. who bave been to CuHtert and snued tbemxelves for tbe avowed pit pose of avenging the lynching of Jim re Williams there last night. Williams was accused of attacking Tlllle MinThe cer. n young white woman. white people at Gale say they have a men ready to fonts of seventy-fivtight, hut are without ammunition. The negroes are said to he armed and to number 300. Help will be sent at once. The marshals are rc-forming a posse to start fur e w-l- HAS. GOOD CHAPLIN 1. ! (ale. POSTMASTER GENERALS HOLD A CONFERENCE Von L. Meyer of the United States Meets Lemieud of Canada at Washington. Bays Cltlaen Should Blass the Law- makers and Not tha Law. Austin, Tex., April l.Uhaplaln Joyce of the bouse of representative this morning to hts regular morning prayer at the opening of the aeaslon said; Hundreds of men in the state nr today cursing tbe laws recently enacted. Why do tiiey not eome and curse the lawmakers. Perhaps they have a wholesome fear that their teeth will he knocked down their thmata by the fists of the smart lawmakers. Hundreds of thousands ar blessing those laws; why not blesi tbe men that passed them? The recent enactment uf certain reform legislation has caused tbe members of the legislature to be the subject of much criticism, which. It is said, prompted the chaplains remankn. ooooooooooooo o o o SIX KILLED IN WRECK, Fort Worth, Texas, April L O Six trainmen were killed to O collision between O a bead-oO two freight trains on the Mls-sour!, Kansas and Texas rall-n Washington, April 1. At n conference between Iostmaaler General Lemieud of Canada and Pimi master General Mayer of the United State In thla city an agreement wa reached to amend the postal convention existing between the two countries Insofar as it affect the transmlsaion of newspaper and periodical known a second seism matter btween the two countries. Canada accept the tentative proposal ot tbls country that second clans matter mailed In one country and addressed to tbe other might lie subject to a rate of one cent for each four ounces or fraction tberoif on each bulk package prepared by atamps affixed. Under the previous arrangement such mall matter has been transmitted to destination In either country on payment of the regular second das rate, no fiscal settlement being made on account of the difference In the volume of mall. On acrount of the very large preponderance of mail matter going from thlecniintrv to Canada over that received from that Country, the agreement haa operated very materially to the advantage of this country. The Canadian postal administration last November gave notice that alter May 7 next the paragraph of the existing convention relating to the admission of newspaper and periodicals from the United States to the Canadian malls on payment of the one cent per pound rate at the office of origin would be abrogated, but later offered compromises. The rale now agreed upon 1 substantially tbe transient second rate O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O road six miles south of here today. The dead; Engineer Doodea. Fireman Hlnta Engineer Caldwell. Fireman Wallace. Two brakemen, names an-known. Both trains were running at high speed. Fire broke out !m-mediately following the collla-sion and the two brakemen were cremated before aaatst-ance could reach them. Over 300 head of cattle were burned and eight ear of merchandise were destroyed. Failure of the crew ef the north bound train to receive an order Is said to be responsible for the wreck. O O O ooooooooooooooo oooooooooooo NO CLEAN LINEN. San Francisco, April . I Twleve hundred laundry worker here and GOO In Alameda on county: today voted to go restrike' when their employers fused to grant them an eight-hou- r today and an Increase of wages. Nine laundries bar been closed down. Only three laundries agreed to the terms proposed by the union. o O O o a o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o a o o o o ooooooooooooooo |